Benefiting from
the fare increases of the past 15 months, only American and Northwest had
less passenger revenue per originating passenger in 2006 than in 2001. Delta had $55 more revenue per passenger.

Measure 5: Full-Time Equivalent Employees* per Aircraft

108

103

5

United,
American and Delta reported the most FTEs per aircraft. Continental and Delta
had the least improvement from 2001 to 2006.

Measure 6: Average Monthly Available Seat-Miles (ASMs) per
Full-Time Equivalent Employee* in millions of ASMs

197

218

7

Delta generated
250 million ASMs per FTE, the most of any network carrier and showed the most
improvement, 58 percent, from 2001 to 2006.